From the racing cars of Emerson Fittipaldi, through the customs of ‘Big Daddy’ Ed Roth, to the Porsches and Lancias of the Martini Racing team, ‘something for everyone’ doesn’t do Bill Warner’s standard-setting event justice.

As an example, how about this? In place of the priceless trophies on display by the lake last year, this time there wa...

The Canadians wrapped up the 2018 Amelia Island auctions with a typically efficient performance that – working on provisional figures – should gross some $27m. At least 83% of the catalogue found new owners.

RM’s massive total of $70.77m in 2017 was boosted by a single-owner collection and the auction ran over ...

Hats off to David Gooding’s team for the all-round effort that resulted in an impressive sell-through-by-number of well over 90%. Unfortunately for the gross, the handful of non-sellers included the two star cars of the 2018 Amelia Island auctions.
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The 2018 Amelia Island sales are more low-key than usual. Twelve months ago, Gooding touted a Jaguar XKSS and RM packed a Ferrari 250 GT SWB. This year, well, there’s a stack of Porsches – those we consider in a separate feature with marque expert Lee Maxted-Page – and the occasional headliner.

Of the 294 cars offered by the Big Three in Florida next month, 73 are Porsches – near enough 25%. We asked marque specialist Lee Maxted-Page for his take on a selection that ranges from a 1953 356 1500 ‘bent window’ Super Coupé to a 2016 991 GT3 RS.